United States: They predict there could be 60,000 Covid deaths in two weeks

With more than 13 million infections of coronavirus and 266,074 deaths due to the disease, experts and authorities United States They predict that these numbers could increase in the coming weeks, after Thanksgiving celebrations that took place a few days ago.

Jonathan reiner, a professor of medicine at George Washington University, said CNN than the number of daily deaths due to covid-19 “It will double in the next ten days.” “We will see around 4,000 deaths per day, which is how we 60,000 other deaths are obtained in just 20 days, ”says Reiner.

In the last official report on Saturday, the United States was the country in the world with the most deaths, with 1,186 people dying from the disease, and is now the country most affected by the coronavirus pandemic that affects everyone.

In the same line, William Schaffner, Professor of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University, told the same media that the United States “is going through a difficult time.” “In a week, more likely two weeks, we will see a sudden increase,” he warned.

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Meanwhile, from the US government, Anthony Fauci -Director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases and highly respected scientific figure in the country- also warned this Sunday against a sharp increase in the contagion curve after the Thanksgiving holiday, which generated the transfer of million people across the country.

“In two or three weeks we could see a new epidemic in addition to the current epidemic” said the chain immunologist ABC. It is that Thursday, November 26, for the celebration, at least 1.1 million people were mobilized by plane, a record since the start of the pandemic in the country in March, according to data from the TSA agency, responsible security checks at airports.

“This weekend, with all these trips, it’s really worrying for us”, said the undersecretary for health, Brett Giroir. Hospitalized patients, Giroir explained, had a peak of 95,000 occupied beds. “About 20% of hospital patients suffer from covid, so this is a very dangerous time,” the official warned. Hospitalizations for covid-19 have increased in 46 U.S. states, including Nevada, Ohio and Pennsylvania, according to data from The Washington Post.

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New restrictions have been put in place in California amid rising cases, a curfew has been declared in San Francisco and Los Angeles has banned most public and private gatherings since Monday. “Close the bars and keep the schools open,” Fauci advised.

However, the immunologist tried to reassure citizens by recalling that a vaccine would be available in December for people at higher risk of developing a severe form of the disease. The first doses of the covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech have arrived in the United States from Belgium, several American media reported on Sunday.

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